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Financing Farming in the U.S.: Improving Small and Midsized Farms through Strategic Financing
This report chronicles six working sessions, in 2009-2010, of a diverse group of people from across the country. Over a six-month period, the group explored the gap between an emerging …...
Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years
This report explores the impact of the adoption of genetically engineered (GE) corn, soybean, and cotton on pesticide use in the United States, drawing principally on data from the United …...
Organic Management Systems: Annotated List of References
A listing of over 75 publications, research papers and reports related to organic management...
That First Step: Organic Food and a Healthier Future
The Organic Center discusses how food and farming can help slow, and potentially reverse the rising incidence of overweight, obesity, and diabetes through six principal...
Simplifying the Pesticide Risk Equation: The Organic Option
The Organic Center answers questions about which organic foods should a consumer seek out to avoid possibly dangerous pesticide exposures and to what degree might organic food reduce pesticide...
Biodiversity Conservation: An Organic Farmers Guide
The guide provides farmers with core biodiversity principles for agriculture, outlines practices for growers to maintain biodiversity on farms, provides tools to evaluate progress of biodiversity...
Elevating Antioxidant Levels in Food through Organic Farming and Food Processing
This State of Science Review (SSR) projects the potential contributions of organic farming methods and food processing techniques on an important dimension of food quality – the polyphenol and...
Minimizing Pesticide Dietary Exposure through Consumption of Organic Food
The Organic Center examines through a review of literature and data, claims and controversies around pesticide residues found on organic crops, use of natural pesticides and overall risk of exposure...